Conan O'Brien not a fan of comedians relying on hate of Trump, instead of actual comedy

Nor am I. But unfortunately none of the clowns are very funny to begin with.

Conan is not an angry person at heart. I haven’t watched any of Kinmel’s stuff but clicked on that. Who the hell outside of a very small, older audience would tune in for that shite? It was basically a shitty, angry political editorial. Aren’t these shows supposed to be fun and entertaining?

Jimmy keeps fanning the flames of hate and violence, I'll laugh bigly the day it comes for him.

Seinfeld has already been down this path and was pretty much met with a collective, "OK, Boomer" from the interwebs edge lords. Conan will get the same.

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relying on hate of Trump, instead of actual comedy

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It’s not just comedians. It’s everything. South Park is currently suffering bigly by doing this. Late Night hosts have done it for years and viewership has gone down the drain.

Trump isn’t my favorite, and I get he’s easy to make fun of. But thats not even what they do anymore. It’s just shite talking and pure, unadulterated hatred now.

It’s just not funny…that’s my main gripe. I don’t care who gets made fun of, just make it funny and you’ll get a laugh or a chuckle out of me. SNL has become “hee haw durr durr trump sucks!” and it just sucks. Late Night is the same. South Park is the same. Hell, SP has made fun of things I like way more than Trump and it’s been hilarious (like Catholics, for example). The Daily Show is one the worst offenders. I don’t watch it but sometimes I’ll catch a minute or two after The Office reruns, and it just sucks. What’s funny is I actually don’t mind Jon Stewart’s jokes and comments, because at least he tries to be funny and sometimes the jokes land.

Daytime TV is similar too. The View would be off the air going on a decade now if it weren’t for Trump as a focal talking point. Companies like Disney and NF lost focus at some point and try far too hard to inject their politics into movies and shows, instead of just making things funny or interesting or entertaining. The fact that I know a company’s politics just from watching their entertainment products is a problem, and it’s far too common that I do.

At some point, society shifted and not only became more political, but identity politics became the center of it. There’s no nuanced discussions about any of it (which is the most positive strategy). It’s all or nothing, you either agree with me or GO frick YOURSELF; there’s no in-between. It’s dumb and it sucks. And it makes watching a lot of things a lot less fun. When entertainment shifts away from actually being entertaining, don’t be mad when people tune out in droves. Same with comedy…when comedy is no longer funny, people won’t be interested anymore. And that’s what is happening.

Trump is one of the lowest-hanging fruit when it comes to making fun of shite that he does. It should be easy to do. But instead everyone goes the “hate” route and it just comes off as lazy to me. So I’ve tuned out to most of it. Good on Conan for pointing it out, even though his contemporaries won’t care in the least.

He has TDS

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He has TDS

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I was going to reference the same thing. He tried to prove Trump wrong about Haiti, stayed at pretty much the only nice resort in the country, and walked around some areas with heavy security. It was a completely dishonest stunt.

But as others have said, he didn't make it his raison d'etre, and he doesn't seem to have hatred towards the right in general. He's made me laugh quite a bit via his late night show + some top tier Simpsons episodes, so he's fine by me.

I do wonder if Conan and others that outwardly have seemed to dislike Trump, actually voted for him & maybe actually like him.

They just put on the hate Trump act to appease the mob they live around.

There was a someone in the news not that long ago that said there are more closet ‘celebrity’ Trump supporters than you would think. Hell Trump is actually doing what a lot of OG democrats have talked about doing in the past.

Comedy is also a form of escapism. It's where we go to forget our troubles and aggravations. People who hate their jobs, are sick of the news feeds they get and go home to a crappy marriage or whatever don't want another shite sandwich shoved down their throat - even if it's a clever, well made shite sandwich. They just want to laugh and forget all of that stuff, just for a moment.